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Copenhagen: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Vintage one-color Danish program for the 1949 film noir, here under the Danish title "Den Store Gatsby - Spritsmuglerkongen." Text in Danish. The first sound adaptation of Fitzgerald's masterpiece, which was filmed once before as a now-lost silent in 1926 under the auspices of Paramount's former incarnation, the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Done in a film noir style, and still considered by many to be the best of several screen adaptations, created at the point when the book's reputation was finally beginning to take hold. Set in New York. 4.5 x 6 inches. 4 pages, side-stapled. Near Fine, with faint edgewear.
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The Great Gatsby [Den Store Gatsby - Spritsmuglerkongen] (Original Danish program for the 1949 film)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel); Owen Davis (play); Elliott Nugent (director); Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum (screenwriters); Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey (starring)
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I Don't Want to be Zelda Anymore (Original program and flyer for the 1984 play)
by [Zelda Fitzgerald] Marty Martin (playwright); Jason Buzas (director); Margie Bolding (starring)
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New York: Actors Reperatory Theatre, 1984. Vintage program and flyer for the 1984 play. Marty Martin's critically acclaimed one character play, starring Margie Bolding as Zelda Fitzgerald, was presented by the Actors Repertory Theatre with Tonbigbee Productions, and premiered on June 7, 1984 at the Actors Repertory Theatre. Program, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, side stapled. Flyer, 5 x 7.5 inches. All Near Fine.
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Naked on Roller Skates (First Edition)
by Maxwell Bodenheim
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New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition. First Edition, in the rare dust jacket. The final two pages of the book are dedicated to a glossary of Harlem slang. A Jazz Age novel, with proletarian leanings, about an ill-fated love affair between an idealistic young woman from Connecticut and a rambling snake oil salesman who travel from to New York, where they open a coffee house, while "the wolves of the underworld and the hounds of Harlem [snarl] at the door" (from rear flap). Lower board edges slightly rubbed, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket extremities very slightly worn, with light, even fading to the spine. Hanna 377.
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Take Me to the Dance Marathon (Original sheet music for the 1932 song)
by Andy and Louis Mizrahi Devere
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Washington, DC: Capitol Music, 1932. Original sheet music for the song "Take Me to the Dance Marathon," played by impressario Zeke Youngblood at the beginning of each of his marathons, and dedicated to him. Interestingly, this copy is signed by seven couples on the front wrapper, each also accompanied by a number, indicating that they were likely participants in one such contest. Although they had existed in one form or another for centuries, dance marathons, where partners needed to continually dance or move in order to avoid elimination, achieved their cultural zenith during the Great Depression, where couples would go to sometimes extreme lengths to compete for prize money, as dramatized in the classic 1935 proletarian novel "They Shoot Horses Don't They" by Horace McCoy. Concern for the health of the participants, as well as pressure from churches and women's groups, led to the gradual dying out of the phenomena, although they are still staged by colleges as charity events today. 9.25 x 12…
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Tender is the Night (Original Program for the 1995 play)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel); Simon Levy (playwright); Heidi Helen Davis (director); Larry Poindexter, Tracy Middendorf (starring)
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Los Angeles: The Fountain Theatre, 1995. Vintage program for the 1995 play. Simon Levy's adaptation of Fitzgerald's 1934 novel, which premiered at The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles on March 2, 1995, directed by Heidi Helen Davis, and starring Larry Poindexter and Tracy Middendorf. Previously made as the 1962 film, directed by Henry King, starring Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones and the 1985 television mini-series, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, directed by Robert Knights, and starring Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and Sean Young. Tri-fold, 5.75 x 11 inches. Near Fine.
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Tropic of Cancer (Original poster for the 1970 film)
by Henry Miller (novel); Joseph Strick (director, screenwriter); Betty Botley (screenwriter); Rip Torn, James T. Callahan, Ellen Burstyn, David Baur (starring)
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions, 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 X-rated film. Based on Miller's 1934 groundbreaking novel of life and love in Paris, a book initially banned in the US. Miller (Torn) and his wife Ellen (Burstyn) dally in France's finer things, while he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon, takes a boy to a bordello, and aids his asylum-bound friend who's in love with a prostitute. 27 x 41 inches, folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus, with small central holes, faint creases. Uncommon.
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